Friday, October 28, 2022

Homecoming Notes

Find Dartmouth's game notes for the Homecoming game against Harvard HERE. Harvard's notes are HERE.

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The Teevens Teleteaser from Dartmouth sports information


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The Dartmouth has a story headlined Big Green football content with students’ support for the sport despite alumni concerns (LINK). 

I did a little digging and found the Homecoming attendance 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago:

1982 vs. Harvard – 17,416
1992 vs. Yale – 13,017
2002 vs. Harvard – 8,102
2012 vs. Harvard – 10,138

Last year?
2021 – vs. Yale – 8,796
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True story. When I worked in Dartmouth Sports Information in the early '80s we were instructed never to use the expession Dartmouth Homecoming. We were to refer to the celebration as Dartmouth Night and Dartmouth Night Weekend.

Homecoming was for other colleges. Dartmouth alumni, we were told in absolutely no uncertain terms, were always welcome to come home to Dartmouth.

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The self-professed czar of the playbook looks at Ivy action this week. Scroll ahead to the 3:25 mark to hear what he has to say about Dartmouth-Harvard:

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A rare stop at the Ivy League home page provided a reminder that the conference doesn't break much of a sweat previewing weekend games. Check out the official preview of this week's action HERE.

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Both teams in Saturday's Homecoming game appear in a Tweet from Craig Haley regarding superlatives from this season. From the Tweet (LINK):

BIGGEST DEFICITS TO COMEBACK WINS
18 – Elon down 28-10 in third quarter to 35-31 win at William & Mary (Sept. 24); Sacred Heart down 21-3 in second to 38-31 overtime win over Dartmouth (Sept. 24)

And . . .

BIGGEST 4TH-QUARTER DEFICITS TO COMEBACK WINS
15 – Elon down 31-16 to 35-31 win at William & Mary (Sept. 24)

14 – Harvard down 21-7 to 28-21 OT win over Merrimack (Sept. 16); Brown down 24-10 to 44-38 2-OT win over Bryant (Sept. 17); Hampton down 31-17 to 38-37 OT win over UAlbany (Oct. 15)

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The Dartmouth home page does a thorough job covering the college's farewell to President James Wright, who died earlier this month at age 83. Click HERE to access the page below.


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EXTRA POINT
I wrote in this space a couple of days ago about potentially replacing my well-used "early 2015" MacBook Air before long. That isn't the last technological advancement under consideration here at our Vermont hillside home.

Our closest neighbor, who spends most of the year at his home on Cape Cod, monitors this place while he's away with all kinds of connected electronic gizmos that require fast and dependable internet service. He knows his way around this stuff and recently installed a Starlink antenna for satellite internet service. I haven't had a chance to ask him about it yet, but I'm curious.

While we've come a long way since dial-up and then a radio receiver off Moose Mountain when we lived across the river, our service here isn't exactly blazing. This is a "speed" test this morning:

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